SW does have its own PDM system, but it is nowhere near the size & scope of a full-on PLM system like windchill. solidworks has zero integration with windchill. solidworks is best with a small team and a smaller project.Ĭreo probably integrates pretty well with windchill. this is something that solidworks is NOT great at. however its implementation really only works well for certain scenarios.Ī lot of users are pointing out that creo is amazing when it comes to large assemblies with large teams. The thing about solidworks is that it is THE BEST software to use from a user point of view. that being said, i had no love lost for pro/e, but solidworks quickly became my bread & butter in the industry. but as i grew in skill i quickly realized that solidworks had a preferred interface and it was much quicker to sketch and constrain in SW than in pro/e. i really liked the way the lines drew and snapped. I cut my teeth using pro/engineer (wildfire 4.0) and i always preferred it over the competition because of the sketch interface. When I tried out Creo for a bit, I was able to find most commands I needed for surfacing within Creo. When I used solidworks for a while it was very different and not as stable in a bad way. I believe the two aforementioned software do take some inspiration of Creo, however because CATIA and Unigraphics (NX) used to be mainframe type CAD programs.Īs an example I am able to work in CATIA and NX just about the same, each of them have similar ways of producing wireframe and surface geometry. I do know that it's not as easy to use as NX or I will even say CATIA (to me). Creo is not as strong as NX or CATIA in certain ways, but I am not quite knowledgeable in that regard. The Aero side of the aircraft industry does not use Creo as much because it's surfacing isn't as strong, and the software above Creo in the market essentially grew up around Aerospace this means that the expertise of engineers, designers and support personnel in that field is made up of users of the high end software. It is used in the Space Industry frequently because it has good PLM, solid surfacing, and I believe good mechanisms. This is because solidworks does not have the native windchill PLM, and it does not work with surfacing or large models nearly as well.
Solidwork's goal was to unseat Creo, which it actually did fantastically, but it has not beaten Creo out of it's last niches.
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